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SKEIN, the Supply Chain and Operations Clubof IIM Udaipur in collaboration with State Bank of India successfully conducted The Supply Chain Summit’15, second edition of the annual Supply Chain Symposium on 14th February, 2015. The clubs and committees of IIMU give ample opportunities to its students to master the tapestry of learning and holistic development while getting hands on experience in organizing events. SKIEN’s constant endeavor remains imparting the students of IIMU the latest knowledge from the World of Supply Chain. It is an initiative to bring together Supply Chain enthusiasts from academia, the local community and industry alike and provide a platform where global leaders can share their opinions and views on supply chain through engagement in panel discussions and thus provide valuable insights to the students.

The event flagged off with an opening speech from Prof. Janat Shah – Director, IIMU who presented his vision for the institute with strong emphasis on research, analysis and entrepreneurship. The umbrella theme for this Supply Chain Summit 2015 was “From Apple to Apple – Supply Chain Transformation”, aptly developed around the global Supply Chain evolving activities and the prominent opportunities in the sector in future. The theme throws light on the transformation that took place from selling of apples in grocery stores to developing and implementing innovative supply chain technologies in companies such as Apple Inc.

The run-up to the event saw numerous online and on-campus competitions being held, with teams from the best B-schools across the country joining the event for battling their knowledge out in the arena in front of the judges.

The event saw two important panel discussions between eminent corporate leaders. The first panel discussion with the sub-theme, “Make in India: How Supply Chain can help achieve the Dream” had panelists Mr. Ajay Jhalani – Head Supply Chain (CHEP India Pvt. Ltd.) , Mr. Chandramohan Gupta – Director Supply Chain (Coca Cola – India and SW Asia), Mr. Shyamal Chatterjee – Head India Operations (Tupperware) , and Mr. Vinal Kabra -Global Supply Manager (Apple Inc., California). The vast experience these professionals had helped in an engaging and enriching discussion with various strata of Supply Chain management touched upon like Sustainability of Make in India, Importance of Analytics in the field of Supply Chain, protecting the margins in businesses, amalgamation of frontend and backend processes, and problems pertaining to warehousing and storage of food in India. The panel mentioned that roughly 12-14% of India’s GDP goes into logistics and similarly 80% of the price of the product also comprises of supply chain. They also threw light on the importance of new managers coming into the industry and the expectation from them. The speakers discussed about plethora of issues ranging from integration with suppliers, Squeezing of working capital & its profitability, Accurate Demand aggregation, and enhancement in Cold Chain infrastructure.

The second panel discussion revolved around the sub-theme, “E-Commerce in India: Competitive Advantage through Innovations in Supply Chain” with the panelists Mr. Hrishikesh Pore – Head Grocery Online (My247Market.com – A TATA Enterprise) , Mr. Navneet Rai – Co-founder (Tolexo) and Mr. Jayant Mahto – VP Operations (Firstcry.com). The panel discussed about how e-commerce has brought the once backend process of a business i.e supply chain to front end. They discussed the dilemma of maintaining a site that offers products both perishable and nonperishable products. The panel discussion was mainly interaction driven with students asking questions specifically related to e-commerce industry as well as companies that the panelists are representing. The panelists also discussed the benefits of e-commerce as compared to the traditional method of shopping offline.

The event ended with a felicitation of the speakers and a vote of thanks. The Supply Chain Summit’15 was a resounding success with speakers and participants alike, appreciating the seamless organization of the entire event and the insights they gained through the discussions.

SKEIN, the Supply Chain and Operations Club of IIM Udaipur in association with State Bank of India is pleased to present the second edition of “The IIM Udaipur Supply Chain Summit“. The annual event is a platform where global leaders can share their opinions and views on supply chain through engagement in panel discussions and thus provide valuable insights to the students. This edition of the summit is scheduled at 2:00 pm on 14th February, 2015

Living by the spirit of IIM Udaipur to be a forerunner in developing management leaders, the theme for Supply Chain Summit 2015 is:

“From Apple to apple – Supply Chain Transformation”

The panel discussion topics for the event are as follows:

Panel discussion 1: Make in India – How Supply Chain can help achieve the Dream

Indian Institute of Management, Udaipur, takes great honor in announcing the successful completion of the Summer Placements 2013-14. The institute once again takes pride in 100% summer placements in spite of 11% increase in batch size. This season saw participation of several reputed organizations across various sectors such as Banking, Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI), FMCG, Consulting, E-Commerce, Pharmaceutical / Healthcare, Retail, Energy and Conglomerates among others. BFSI emerged as the largest sector making offers to 25% of the batch.

IIM Udaipur witnessed participation from a total of 56 companies, marking a 22% increase over the previous year in the Summer Placement process for the 110 students of the Post Graduate Programme (PGP) 2013-2015. This year saw many prominent brands visiting the campus for the first time, a few names being Aegis Global Ltd., Boston Consulting Group, Cummins, Future Group, Dover Corporation, Marico, Maersk Line, Sundaram Mutual, Talisma and many more. This strongly reflects the rising distinction of the institute and the increasing value of its talent in the industry. Several past recruiters like GE India, ICICI Bank, ICRA, KPMG, Infoedge India (naukri.com), Mapro, Xpress Money, UAE Exchange, Vedanta and others have continued to show confidence in the quality of the students and the management education imparted. With the varied professional and educational diversity of the batch, students have been offered with a variety of profiles like Finance, Marketing, Consulting, Operations, IT/Analytics and HR. Various profiles of Business Development, Strategy design and execution have been provided by different start-ups.

Also, the institute is the first B-school from India to partner with the prestigious Global Business Project consortium through which selected students get an opportunity to work with the very best management graduates from a set of 12 global universities namely UNC-Chapel Hill, Columbia, George Washington University, Lingnan College, Miami, Maryland, Purdue, Pittsburgh, San Diego State, the University of Connecticut, and University of Wisconsin & UNISINOS. The project will provide the students with an opportunity to work with top global companies who recruit MBAs as well as with fellow MBAs from different backgrounds, countries and culture. Three of our students will be working for clients HPCL, Eli Lilly and Handwriting Without Tears in consulting projects which will help them gain an international business experience complementary to the academics.

IIM Udaipur believes in doing things differently and focuses on maximizing the utility of the summer internship program. The students have been selected to work for Trunz Water Systems, a Switzerland based firm on a project that will be completely handled by the students and they will carry out the commercial-feasibility analysis. The students will get an opportunity to work in collaboration with the students from the University of St. Gallen, thus giving them exposure of working with a global team and analyzing from a global perspective.

IIM Udaipur has yet again created its mark globally in the Operations & Supply Chain field.

IIMU has been selected as 1 of the 5 top teams from across the globe for the finals of the prestigious Global Operations Conference 2013. Of all the participating teams from US and abroad, only 5 teams have been invited for the final presentation on the live industry challenge in Operations.

The finalists are : Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 2 teams from University of Michigan (UM), Pennsylvania State University (PSU) and IIM Udaipur.

This event organized by Tauber Institute for Global Operations (http://www.tauber.umich.edu/) is considered as 1 of the biggest International conferences in Operations & SCM and sponsored by companies such as Dell, CISCO, Infosys, 3M, Eaton, Microsoft, ALCOA, Steelcase, Conway.

The participants will also get an opportunity to network and socialize with the sponsors as listed above. It will also provide a platform for IIMU to establish global corporate tie-ups with these organizations.